How mooter compares
We're not the only LLM router. We are the one built for Claude Code.
Eleven capabilities. Mooter is the only 11/11.
The capabilities below are derived from the real pain points of running many Claude Code sessions at once. Each tool does something well — none of the others does all eleven.
Scores are derived honestly from the per-row cells, not curated to make Mooter look better. Mooter wins 5 capabilities no other tool has — cross-session $ savings, 5h quota forecast, cross-session routing learning, orchestration locks across terminals, and the workflow-visibility statusline chip — and it is the only stack that ships all 11 in one tool.
And against the routers and proxies
| mooter | Claude Code default | LiteLLM proxy | Continue.dev | OpenRouter | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Architecture | Hook (local) | Direct API call | HTTP proxy | IDE plugin | API gateway |
| Local models (Ollama) | ✓ T0 native | ✗ | ✓ (configurable) | ✓ | ✗ |
| Auto-routing by complexity | ✓ T0–T3 axis | ✗ Opus on all | ⚠️ rule-based | ⚠️ manual | ⚠️ tags |
| Domain routing (packs) | ✓ 7+ Moo Packs | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Pre-prompt < 50ms overhead | ✓ 14ms p50 | n/a | ~80–200ms | ~120ms | ~200ms cloud |
| Code/prompts leave machine | ⚠️ T0 routes local; cloud Haiku if key set | ✓ all to Anthropic | ✓ through proxy | ✓ to cloud | ✓ via gateway |
| Pack-based specialization | ✓ Moo Packs | ✗ | ✗ | ⚠️ commands | ✗ |
| Adapter Forge (local LoRA) | ⚠️ Wave 26 (training) | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Subscription-aware | ✓ tier-detect | ✗ | ⚠️ via env | ✗ | n/a |
| Live statusline HUD | ✓ 3-line | ✗ | ✗ | ⚠️ side panel | ✗ |
| Per-bash tool badge | ✓ per-call tier | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Sparkline (last-10 tier mix) | ✓ inline | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| End-of-session digest | ✓ mooter digest | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Live local subagent visibility | ✓ 🐄×N live | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Cost tracking per-prompt | ✓ real-time | ✗ | ✓ in logs | ⚠️ session | ✓ dashboard |
| Open source | ✓ MIT | n/a (closed) | ✓ Apache 2 | ✓ Apache 2 | ✗ (gateway hosted) |
| Free | ✓ forever | depends on sub | self-host or paid | ✓ | ⚠️ markup on API |
| Setup time | 1 command | n/a | 30+ min (config) | install plugin | sign up + key |
| Works without internet | ✓ T0 local | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
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Cursor / Copilot / Cody — and the open-source agents Cline, Aider and Roo Code — are AI coding assistants/agents, not LLM routers. They decide what to do; mooter decides which model runs each step. It complements them (run mooter under Claude Code while you use any of them elsewhere) rather than replacing them — so this table compares routers, not agents.